Comments on: Back on the Plot! http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/ Vegetable Fruit & Herb Growing on my Allotment Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:05:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mia Hancock http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4855 Mia Hancock Sun, 30 Nov 2008 20:34:37 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4855 Hi As a very new, proud 'owner' of a patch of mud in West Berkshire, I was delightly to find your website! What a great idea. For a 'young-ing' like me it is sometimes hard to ask the 'Oldies' for advice. Think that after 5 months, two bags of 'main crop' half a bag of tennisball shaped carrots,(diffently CAN NOT transplant carrots!)and some small but sweet onions, I might be winning them over! Glad to hear that even the best of us dont always get time to do everything! Thanks for the giggle! Looking forward to my next visit! M Hi
As a very new, proud ‘owner’ of a patch of mud in West Berkshire, I was delightly to find your website! What a great idea. For a ‘young-ing’ like me it is sometimes hard to ask the ‘Oldies’ for advice. Think that after 5 months, two bags of ‘main crop’ half a bag of tennisball shaped carrots,(diffently CAN NOT transplant carrots!)and some small but sweet onions, I might be winning them over! Glad to hear that even the best of us dont always get time to do everything! Thanks for the giggle! Looking forward to my next visit! M

]]> By: John http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4848 John Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:22:58 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4848 Best of luck Duncan, sometimes you win sometimes you lose a packet of seeds :) Best of luck Duncan, sometimes you win sometimes you lose a packet of seeds :)

]]> By: Duncan http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4847 Duncan Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:54:12 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4847 I am going to try growing watermelons on my allotment in Middleton next year. Hoping for an average to hot summer though! Read an article by Bob Flowerdew - he reckons you can grow them in England outside on the plot as long as you cover the soil with plastic weed suppressing membrane to warm it up and then cover the seedlings with a polytunnel cloche. Start them off inside in peat pots in mid-April, plant out in early June in the sunniest part of the allotment (preferably a slightly raised bed). Watermelons like a sand soil, so I am going to add some horticultural sand, also some rotted horse manure. Also you can increase your chances of success by choosing cold-tolerant varieties such as 'Sugar Baby' and 'Cream of Saskachewan'. It's worth a go I reckon!!! I am going to try growing watermelons on my allotment in Middleton next year. Hoping for an average to hot summer though! Read an article by Bob Flowerdew – he reckons you can grow them in England outside on the plot as long as you cover the soil with plastic weed suppressing membrane to warm it up and then cover the seedlings with a polytunnel cloche. Start them off inside in peat pots in mid-April, plant out in early June in the sunniest part of the allotment (preferably a slightly raised bed). Watermelons like a sand soil, so I am going to add some horticultural sand, also some rotted horse manure. Also you can increase your chances of success by choosing cold-tolerant varieties such as ‘Sugar Baby’ and ‘Cream of Saskachewan’. It’s worth a go I reckon!!!

]]> By: John http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4833 John Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:36:25 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4833 Thanks for the kind comments.. I think! Scruffy, well yes but if the new book sells well I'll employ a gardener :) Thanks for the kind comments.. I think!

Scruffy, well yes but if the new book sells well I’ll employ a gardener :)

]]> By: John Craster http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4832 John Craster Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:23:29 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4832 Have just finished reading your book I bought,a good read I must admit. I have only been allotmenteering ,on and off,for about 40yrs.and am still learning the odd little things lol. This is a must for anyone starting on the trail. PS. Its nice to see from your pictures a nice scruffy working allotment, looking forward to much more happy reading John Have just finished reading your book I bought,a good read I must admit.

I have only been allotmenteering ,on and off,for about 40yrs.and am still learning the odd little things lol.

This is a must for anyone starting on the trail.

PS. Its nice to see from your pictures a nice scruffy working allotment, looking forward to much more happy reading

John

]]> By: andy willmore http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4831 andy willmore Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:51:02 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/310/back-on-the-plot/#comment-4831 Welcome back, I don't know about anybody else but I've had withdrawl symptons!!!!! Welcome back, I don’t know about anybody else but I’ve had withdrawl symptons!!!!!

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